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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. Earl Nightingale

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Gustav Stresemann

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Joseph Brodsky

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Nicolas Roeg

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

Robert Hamer

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.

Om Malik

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Karl Lehmann

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Barbara Bush

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Lennart Meri

No matter what town you are in, there is some social order and a different yardstick to chart. In New York, people create things like schools and speaking languages and second homes.

Jill Kargman

I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.

Cate Blanchett